A notable feature of the relocation of the De Stadshof Collection from Ghent to Haarlem is the 1999 installation Forever Friends by the German-French artist Hans Langner. For this work, he incorporated around two thousand objects to create a mysterious cave – one of the De Stadshof Collection’s crowd favorites. As the massive installation could […]
Read moreFirst major exhibition opens in October 2026 The first result of the new partnership between the De Stadshof Collection and the Museum of the Mind is on the way. In October, the Museum of the Mind, located on the Grote Markt in Haarlem, will open the exhibition Outsider Art! – 150 Years of Outsider Art […]
Read moreThe Great Invocation refers to the mantra allegedly received by British writer Alice Bailey from a spirit guide in 1945, as the last battles of WWII ravaged Europe. Bailey described The Great Invocation as a synthesis of meditation, prayer, and affirmation, that would assist the world in times of unprecedented calamity, thus ‘saving humanity from […]
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Art Brut: Frame Work – December 11, 2020 through April 25, 2021, Lausanne, Collection de l’Art Brut
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Two monumental art works by Willem van Genk out of the De Stadshof Collection are on show in the exhibit: ‘WOEST – Willem van Genk (1927-2005)’. From September 19 upto March 15 2020 in the Outsider Art Museum in Amsterdam.
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Everything that surrounds us tingles and shimmers. Digital screens light up. Neurons crackle under the cranium. Our senses are overwhelmed. Some people eagerly jump into this abundance of stimuli, others go under or try to find comfort in a low stimulus environment. Do we become restless or languid, do we suffer from digibesity or burnout? […]
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28-09-2018 t/m 06-01-2019 Danser Brut in het LaM, Villeneuve d’Ascq met werken van Hein Dingemans, Luiz Figueiredo, en Oswald Tschirtner. Samenstellers Savine Faupin en Christophe Boulanger, beiden verbonden aan het LaM, introduceren de expositie als volgt: “Danser brut pose un regard inédit et transversal sur la danse à partir de l’art brut, mais aussi de l’art […]
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20-07-2018 t/m 02-09-2018 Op 20 juli opende TV-presentator Lucas de Man de expositie De man. Mannelijk naakt in vele gedaanten in Kunsthal KunstaanZ, Brink 16, in Deventer. Stichting Collectie De Stadshof gaf twee sculpturen in bruikleen: de Dansende Christus van Luiz Figueiredo en een gekruisigde Christus met een imposante erectie, van Giuseppe Mascherini. Citaat uit het […]
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